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| Teaching - there can be no finer calling requiring the clearest demonstration of moral and ethical behavior. Ira Shull, For the Love of Teaching |
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| Why do you teach? Let Us Know. |  |
Tell Us about your most memorable teacher. |
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Today's 5-Minute Quest
Good Luck! |
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  Use all of these letters to spell the title of an 1892 work by Robert Louis Stevenson (according to Authors' Calendar):
LET SHE PRAY |
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a 1992 Whoopi Goldberg film (according to Biography.com):
RESIST CAT |
(hint: all three questions will require you to use a link found on this page)
Use all of these letters to spell the title of a 1975 work by George V. Higgins (according to Authors Calendar)?
OILY CANAL HIT |
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World Kindness Day
(Observed annually on November 13) |
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| 1850 | Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish Author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) |
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| 1915 | Nathaniel Benchley (Massachusetts-born Children's Author) |
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| 1792 | Edward Trelawny (English Author) |
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| 1908 | C. Vann Woodward (Arkansas-born Author: Awarded 1982 Pulitzer Prize for History) |
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| 1939 | George V. Higgins (Massachusetts-born Author) |
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| 354 | Saint Augustine (Algerian-born Catholic Saint, Philosopher) |
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| 1486 | Johann Albert Eck (German Theologian) |
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| 1831 | James Clerk Maxwell (Scottish Physicist) |
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| 1872 | L.L. Bean (Maine-born Business Leader: Founder of L.L. Bean) |
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| 1312 | Edward III (King of England) |
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| 1856 | Louis Brandeis (Kentucky-born Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; First Jew to be Appointed to the Court) |
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| 1876 | Cary Augustus Hardee (23rd Governor of Florida: January 4, 1921-January 6, 1925) |
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| 1891 | Floyd B. Olson (Governor of Minnesota: 1931 - 1936) |
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| 1923 | Virginia Mae Brown (West Virginia-born State and Federal Government Official) |
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| 1813 | Edwin Booth (Maryland-born Dramatic Actors; Brother of John Wilkes Booth) |
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| 1894 | Bennie Moten (Kansas City-born African-American Jazz Pianist, Bandleader) |
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| 1934 | Garry Marshall (New York City-born Director, Writer, Producer, Actor) |
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| 1938 | Jean Seberg (Iowa-born Actress) |
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| 1949 | Whoopi Goldberg (New York City-born African-American Actress: 1990 Academy Award for Ghost) |
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| 1954 | Chris Noth (Wisconsin-born Actor) |
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| 1911 | Buck O'Neil (Florida-born African-American Professional Baseball Player) |
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| 1947 | John Hill Westbrook (Texas-born Collegiate Football Player: First African-American to Play in the Southwest Conference) |
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| 1962 | Vinny Testaverde (New York-born Winner of the 1986 Heisman Trophy) |
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| 867 | Pope Nicholas I (Italian-born Pope of the Roman Catholic Church) |
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| 1460 | Prince Henry the Navigator (Portuguese Prince Who Started the Age of Exploration) |
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| 1868 | Gioacchino Rossini (Italian Composer of "The Barber of Seville") |
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| David Tod (25th Governor of Ohio) |
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| 1939 | Lois Weber (Pennsylvania-born Filmmaker: First Female Screen Director) |
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| 1974 | Karen Silkwood (Texas-born Union Activist) |
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| 1983 | Junior Samples (Georgia-born Comedic Actor) |
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| 1620 | The Mayflower, Remains Anchored off Cape Cod: Small Parties Go Ashore'' |
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| 1775 | American Troops Capture Montreal |
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| 1785 | British Evacuate St. Augustine Leaving East Florida Under Full Control of the Spanish |
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| 1789 | Benjamin Franklin Coins the Phrase ""In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." |
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| 1803 |
 Lewis: We left Massac at about 5 this evening and proceeded 3 miles down the river and camped on the south-east shore. It rained very hard tonight and I got sick with something. The fever went down by morning. |
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Clark: Some intervales of fair weather last night, rain continue this morning. I walked up the Brook & assended the first Spur of the mountain with much fatigue, the distance about 3 miles, through an intolerable thickets of Small pine, a groth much resembling arrow wood on the Stem of which there is thorns; this groth about 12 or 15 feet high inter lockd into each other and Scattered over the high fern & fallen timber, added to this the hills were So Steep that I was compelled to draw my Self up by the assistance of those bushes— The Timber on those hills are of the pine Species large and tall maney of them more than 200 feet high & from 8 to 10 feet through at the Stump those hills & as far back as I could See, I Saw Some Elk Sign, on the Spur of the mountain tho' not fresh. I killed a Salmon trout on my return. The Hail which fell 2 nights past is yet to be Seen on the mountains; I Saw in my ramble to day a red berry resembling Solomons Seal berry which the nativs call Sol-me and use it to eate. my principal object in assending this mountain was to view the countrey below, the rain continuing and weather proved So Cloudy that I could not See any distance on my return
we dispatched 3 men Colter, Willard and Shannon in the Indian canoe to get around the point if possible and examine the river, and the Bay below for a god harber for our Canoes to lie in Safty &c. The tide at every floot tide Came
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| 1821 | Andrew Jackson Submits His Resignation as Governor of Florida to President James Monroe |
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| 1833 | The Leonid Meteor Shower Is Especially Intense Filling the Skies |
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| 1847 | In Lexington, Kentucky, Henry Clay Denounces the Mexican War as an Act of Aggression |
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| 1849 | In California's First State-Wide Election, the Voters Overwhelmingly Approve the State's First Constitution |
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| 1851 | Denny Party Completes Oregon Trail Journey from Indiana to Washington's Alki Point |
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| London-Paris Telegraph Begins Operation |
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| 1861 | General McClellan Refuses to Meet with President Lincoln |
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| 1862 | African-American Troops of the Union Army Destroy Salt Works Along the East Coast of Florida |
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| Lewis Carroll Begins Writing Alice's Adventures... |
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| 1864 | Sherman's Troops Burn a Large Steam Mill in Marietta, Georgia |
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| 1866 | The Georgia Legislature Votes Not to Ratify the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution |
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| 1874 | Berryville Is Made the County Seat of Carroll County, Arkansas |
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| 1884 | Construction Begins on a New Georgia Statehouse |
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| 1893 | Jean Sibelius' "Karelia Suite" Is Premiered in Viborg, Finland |
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| 1903 | In Oregon, the Grants Pass City Council Votes Not to Accept a $10,000 Gift from Andrew Carnegie for Construction of a New Library |
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| 1907 | Paul Cornu Is First Person to Achieve Free Flight in a Helicopter While Carrying a Passenger |
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| 1909 | Ballinger-Pinchot Scandal Erupts When Colliers Magazine Exposes Shady Dealings in Alaskan Coal Lands |
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| 1913 | The Bark A. J. Fuller, Loaded with Alaska Canned Salmon, Is Rammed by a Steamer at Seattle and Sinks |
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| 1922 | William R. Day Retires as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| In Dover, Delaware, over 200 African-American Pupils Attend the New Booker T. Washington Education Center |
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| 1926 | The First Air Regatta in the Pacific Northwest Is Held at Washington's Sand Point |
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| 1927 | The Holland Tunnel Opens between New York City & New Jersey |
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| 1940 | Walt Disney Releases Fantasia |
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| 1941 | HMS Ark Royal Is Torpedoed 30 Miles from Gibraltar, Sinking 14 Hours Later |
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| U.S. Congress Amends Neutrality Act of 1935 to Allow American Merchant Ships Access to War Zones |
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| 1942 | USS Juneau Is Sunk with Iowa's Five Sullivan Brothers Aboard |
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| Minimum Draft Age Is Lowered from 21 to 18 |
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| Eudora Welty Wins $300 O. Henry Memorial Prize for Her Short Story "The Wide Net" |
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| 1946 | The First Man-Induced Snow Storm Is Seeded over Mount Greylock in Massachusetts |
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| 1953 | A Member of the Indiana Textbook Commission Declares Robin Hood Is Communistic |
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| Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 5 Is Premiered in Moscow by the Beethoven Quartet |
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| 1956 | Browder v. Gayle, Supreme Court Declares Bus Segregation Laws Unconstitutional |
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| 1959 | The Mansion, by William Faulkner, Is Published by Random House |
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| 1960 | A School Holiday Is Declared in New Orleans to Avoid Court-Ordered School Desegregation |
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| 1968 | Students Protest of Suspension of Professor Closes San Francisco State University |
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| 1969 | U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew Accuses Network Television News of Bias and Distortion |
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| 1970 | East Pakistan Is Devastated By Cyclone That Kills 500,000 |
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| 1971 | NASA's Mariner 9 Goes into Orbit Around Mars as First Spacecraft to Orbit Another Planet |
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| 1972 | Michigan Governor William Milliken Purchases the State's First Lottery Ticket |
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| 1977 | Li'l Abner Appears in Newspapers for the Last Time |
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| 1978 | NASA Launches Einstein Observatory (HEAO 2) to Research High-Energy Astronomical Phenomena |
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| The Welsh National Radio Service First Goes on the Air |
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| 1979 | Robert Jarvik Is Granted a U.S. Patent for an Artificial Heart |
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| The Times of London Resumes Printing After Nearly a Year-Long Labor Dispute |
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| 1982 | Vietnam Veterans Memorial Is Dedicated in Washington, D.C. |
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| 1984 | NASA Launches NATO 3-D for the NATO Satellite Communications System |
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| 1985 | Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz Erupts - Mudslide Kills 23,000 |
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| 1992 | Riddick Bowe Defeats Evander Hollyfield to Win the World Heavyweight Boxing Title |
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| 1994 | Swedish Voters Choose to Join the European Union |
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| 1995 | Pitcher Greg Maddux Is Chosen for His Fourth Straight National League Cy Young Award |
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| 1997 | The Lion King Opens on Broadway |
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| 1998 | Zimbabwe Seizes 841 White-owned Farms to Resettle Thousands of Black Peasant Farmers |
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| 5.4 Magnitude Earthquake Kills Five in Southern Iran |
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| 2001 | Wilton Gregory Is Elected First African-American President of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops |
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